[141] in tlhIngan-Hol
Qapbe'
dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 16 19:17:20 1992
From: mosquito@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 01:03:03 -0500
To: dcctdw@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: needle@Athena.MIT.EDU, tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us
You sent me a message (individually) that says:
Qapbe'qu'bejqu' ghu' vIHarbe'taH
As I think this is hard enough, I decided to sent this to the list, too, and
ask their opinion. Here's mine:
Your sentence says:
I don't believe situations CERTAINLY do NOT succeed/work.
Hmm... You said you wanted "I don't believe in no-win situations."
I think "no win situations" is a hard enough phrase.
Literally, "no-win situations" is "ghu'mey QaplaHbe'".
"I don't believe in X" means "I don't believe X exists". So we can't hope to
use that construction. Instead, I'd rearrange X: "I don't believe
one can not-win situations."
ghu'mey Qapbe'laHlu' 'e' vIHarbe'taH.
Note this uses -laH and -lu' together, which Okrand has explicitly forbidden.
So the next best thing is:
ghu'mey luj 'e' poQlu' 'e' vIHarbe'taH.
"I don't believe situations are required to fail." or
"I don't believe one must fail situations."
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